Gratuitously Sentence Examples

4, and note that in Athens, ostracism gratuitously anticipated a crime which, if committed, would have been punishable in the popular Heliaea.

The school committee (who serve gratuitously) appoint the superintendent and supervisors of schools.

1 Its methods were stated to be: " To afford information to every country capable of producing cotton, both by the diffusion of printed directions for its cultivation, and sending competent teachers of cotton planting and cleaning, and by direct communication with Christian missionaries whose aid and co - operation it solicits; to supply, gratuitously, in the first instance, the best seeds to natives in every part of the world who are willing to receive them; to give prizes for the extended cultivation of cotton; and The Association published a weekly paper known as The Cotton Supply Reporter.

The members of the board serve gratuitously, but elect a salaried secretary.

The societies or individuals undertaking village settlements must do so from philanthropic motives, inasmuch as within two years of the founding of a village, the land, under pain of forfeiture to the state, must be transferred gratuitously to the villagers.

In other words, concessions to any co-contracting state are only allowed gratuitously to a third co-contracting state when nothing has been given for them, the clause not covering advantages granted in return for advantages.

In January 1833 the funds available were all spent, but so much progress had been shown that the legislature voted $6000, later increased to $30,000 a year, to the institution on condition that it should educate gratuitously twenty poor blind from the state; money was also contributed from Salem, and from Boston, and Colonel Thomas H.

The national government maintains at Hot Springs an army and navy hospital, and a bath-house open gratuitously to indigent bathers.

Colleges, madrasah (where young men are instructed, fed, and frequently also lodged gratuitously), exist in nearly every town.

35) not only substitutes Thermopylae but gratuitously informs his readers that here the Pylaean assemblies were held.

Though not gratuitously aggressive, they are highly intractable, and have given great trouble to the Chinese authorities.

His services seem to have been rendered for some time gratuitously, for in February 1537 there is an entry in the city registers to the effect that six crowns had been voted to him, "since he has as yet hardly received anything."